From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:50:14 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: <47074AAA.5040502@walrond.org> <877ilw1jcb.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191941832 30189 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2007 14:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:57:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 16:57:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfGVf-0002bc-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:56:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfGVZ-0002mO-Nv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfGVK-0002kP-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfGVI-0002jx-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfGVI-0002jf-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfGVH-0004gb-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IfGTx-0008Qx-EH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:54:49 +0000 Original-Received: from 222.94.199.176 ([222.94.199.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:54:49 +0000 Original-Received: from chenggao by 222.94.199.176 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:54:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.94.199.176 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rg0n1RNktAW8cucit4GHziE2WIk= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48265 Archived-At: *On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:57:40 -0400 * jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) climbed out of the dark hell and cried out: > Sven Bretfeld writes: > >> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:43:22AM +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: >>> So, a quick google reveals VM as the front runner for email. Am I right? >>> Any gotchas or missing features to be aware of? > > A missing feature: somebody told me it's not being maintained. Somebody gave you false inteligence. VM got a new maintainer and new site - http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ . > > A gotcha: convert once locked up my computer completely while trying > to view a mail with attachments. > > VM was great with XEmacs, when I switched to Emacs, everything went > all screwy. > > Joel > > -- > Joel J. Adamson > Biostatistician > Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit > Massachusetts General Hospital > Boston, MA 02114 > (617) 643-1432 > (303) 880-3109